BIS 490/BCULST 593: Gender & the Politics of Numbers (Charusheela): Locating Scholarship

A main goal of this assignment is to become as acquainted as possible with your scholar's writing/publications so that you can 1) ask informed questions during your interview with them and 2) understand how and where to situate their scholarship within the broader field. 

The scholar's CV is an excellent starting point. You can use this to search titles of books or articles they have published. Searching UW Libraries Search (purple search box to the right) with the publication title in quotation marks is the best way to locate their publications. If you cannot find a title that way, try a search of the open web via Google or another search engine.

Additionally, you can search the scholar's name in UW Libraries Search to locate all of their available publications at once. This is easier when the scholar has a unique name but is possible for anyone! Click on a scholar's name in 

Another strategy to employ as needed is to search for works or other scholars who influenced your scholar. This will look similar to the searches above - enter a work's title in quotation marks in UW Libraries Search or search a scholar's name. 

Searching databases with keywords is likely to be of lesser importance for this assignment, but to explore/find more works related to a particular subfield, you may wish to search in one or more of these databases. 

It's important to develop strategies for effective reading and skimming through scholarly articles and books. Below are some resources that will help you navigate reading through the resources that you locate.